Cesare Fracassini


Cesare Fracassini was an Italian painter, mainly of large mythologic or religious topics.

Biography

While he was born to Paolo Serafini, originally from Orvieto; his father died when he was an infant and his mother remarried with a Domenico Fracassini. Cesare was born in Rome, and studied painting there with either Tommaso Minardi, or his pupils, before enrolling in the Accademia di San Luca, where he executed several frescoes for San Lorenzo fuori le Mura. He lived alongside the painter Cesare Mariani as a young man. He often collaborated or obtained commissions with his friend Paolo Mei, as well as a colleague of Guglielmo de Sanctis and Bernardo Celentano. He died in 1868. One of his most important pictures is The Martyrs of Gorinchem, painted for a beatification ceremony in the Vatican.
In 1857, he was awarded first prize at the Concorso Clementino. Among his works:St Jerome, church of San Sebastian on via AppiaDaphne and Chloe for an exposition in FlorenceNuma takes the counsel of the Egerian Nymph, sipario for the Teatro Argentina in RomeApollo and Phaeton with the Solar chariot, sipario for the Teatro Apollo in RomeBelisarius liberates Orvieto from the Goths sipario for Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto